Am I the only person who feels that this plot has almost no weight to it? The girls are super kawaii, but I don't really care much for Tankery. I feel like this would be better if all these girls enlisted in the armed forces and went to war for real. That way the stuff they did would actually have consequences. They might as well be playing a tank video game.

Am I the only person who feels that this plot has almost no weight to it? The girls are super kawaii, but I don't really care much for Tankery. I feel like this would be better if all these girls enlisted in the armed forces and went to war for real. That way the stuff they did would actually have consequences. They might as well be playing a tank video game.

That isn't the fault of the setting or plot, it's the fault of the characters. The Tankery plot pins on the characters resolve for Tankery itself.

Take Hajime no Ippo for example.
The plot here has no more going for it than Girls und Panzer does, it's just them getting better and facing foes.

Only Girls Und Panzer has the advantage of a group set of protaganists.

Where they fail however, is the motivations and well, fighting spirit!

The main character herself is forced into every decision. She doesn't want to take Tankery, everybody says Please and gives puppy eyes, she concedes. She's not the leadership type, but nooo, make her the leader, she knows about tanks, clearly the Student Council president knows more about leadership than her.

In contrast, Ippo from the screen up there is into boxing simply because he's extremely interested in it. He's Boxing BECAUSE it's something to do. He's not content with other hobbies or past times, he doesn't avoid getting into the Boxing scene. He jumps in, and fights for his right to be a part of it. Whether or not other characters take the plot seriously is null, since the hero likes it and is focusing ALL of his energy and time into it. It makes Boxing exciting, same with any sport anime actually. It's about how much the Hero tries.

Why do her friends take Tankery? Because the other friend does it! They have little to no incentive to ever have taken Tankery. From what we see in Episode 4 (or was it 5?) One of them has reasons NOT to take Tankery, that being her Mother's disapproval. It's not like she took Tankery for the awesomeness of using the gun. She took it cuz her friends were taking it. She grew to like it sure, but social norms and parental bonds arnt' as weak as to just fall over at the drop of a hobby. Tankery is treated as a big deal by the Panzer Universe, but not by it's central characters.

The very fact that these tanks were customized puts more value in the characters than the tanks themselves, unfortunately most of the characters are still and forever Flat.

The series is decent enough, but you'll have to ignore the character motivations and back stories. As the birthdays of the girls are far more important(The hell is up with Japan and birthdays?)

Cake, AGAIN? REALLY?
Ok, the Tank-e Cak-e works just fine, you pass. Good job.

One problem, they're fighting Americans right?

WHERE ARE THE DAMN AMERICAN FLAGS?

AMERICAAAAAAAAA

WARNING, FOLLOWING IMAGE IS SO AMERICAN, FOREIGNERS WILL BE STRICKEN BLIND, AND PERHAPS MISS THE HUMOR. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

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So um, American Flags are like, required. Money and cheating jokes aside, at least have FLAGS, what is this, Texas-America? Is that why everyone is blonde? Where are the black people? Are black girls just too unsexy yah damn racists? No mexicans either, or are you saving the Tequila Gundam for later?

Hehe......

what? It's a legitimate question! American's aren't just popular white girls, you gotta have the other racial profiles and most importantly, the nerd girl. Give me a Willow Rosenberg already!

A promotional video for the collaboration between the World of Tanks video game and the Girls und Panzer anime was unveiled at the Tokyo Game Show 2013 event on Sunday. The online game began service in Japan on September 5.